Sustainability is concerned with the issues around the ongoing and mutual preservation of both society and the environment. It is a widely used term and supposed goal for many governments but it is also easily misunderstood. Sustainability: The Basics offers an accessible and interdisciplinary intro[...]
A young otter, kidnapped in his infancy and raised as a warrior-thief by a band of vermin, leaves the tribe and goes off to seek adventures of his own.[...]
Newly translated by Peter Constantine
Introduction by Leo Damrosch
"The Essential Writings of Rousseau" collects the best and most indispensable work of one of the world's most influential writers. A towering figure of Enlightenment thought, Jean-Jacques Rousseau was also one of that movement[...]
The foundation "Het Oosters Instituut" holds one of three major collections of inscribed wooden sticks from Ancient South Arabia. These documents contain the everyday correspondence of the Sabaeans and the Minaeans, peoples belonging to the so-called Ancient South Arabian civilization that existed f[...]
Schweiz geografiska läge i Alperna, mitt i Europa, är både
centralt och avskilt och har gett landet dess speciella karaktär med en stor språklig och kulturell mångfald. I mötet med de angränsande kulturområdena har människorna konfronterats med sin egen identitet likväl som med[...]